Andi Smith - Blog

Quite a while ago, I wrote an article about jQuery .on() and off() - an improved way of attaching events in jQuery - and still the best way to attach events to DOM elements in jQuery.

Inspired by a post I read earlier this week on how difficult it can be for newcomers to get in to the industry, I decided that I wanted to write a post with some hints and advice for developers who are just starting out their careers.

2012 really felt like a progressive step forward for Responsive Web Design.

They say that a workman is only as good as his tools, and the same is true for a web developer.

A couple of months ago, I gave a PechaKucha talk about creating a 3D animated particles effect with the canvas element.

Following on from [my previous post which introduced us to getUserMedia](http://www.andismith.com/blogs/2012/06/introduction-to- getusermedia/), I wanted to share two ways you can extend getUserMedia's video capture using my good friend, the canvas elemen…

It's been a while since my last blog post, but I've actually been working on a number of exciting things in the last couple of months, so I'm going to take this opportunity to write about one of them - video/audio capture.

Carousels are one of the most common components web developer's build.

Recently I've been looking in to how the EU Cookie Law affects web sites serving users in Europe.

This year I decided to enter the JS1k competition for the first time.

Whilst we've been busy supporting older versions of Internet Explorer, a few new CSS features for backgrounds have sprung out of the woodwork and in to our browsers. background-size background-clip and background-origin These features have been hiding beh…

There was a new release of Modernizr yesterday (2.5.1), and included within this release was some brand new features to the Modernizr Prefixed() API (introduced in 2.0), which can take away some of the pain of vendor prefixes from your JavaScript.

I wanted to write up my notes on the jQuery UK Conference as I had an amazing time.

Last week I had the opportunity to go on a presentation skills course, and one of the tasks we were set was to explain one aspect of our job role to a group of people who had no experience in our field using the LIONS approach using zero jargon.

(UPDATED for Impress.js v0.3) The other day I mentioned on Twitter that I was playing around with Bartek Szopka's Impress.js library to write a presentation and it seemed to gather some interest.

Today is Blue Beanie Day, an anniversary where developers change their avatars to wear blue beanies to show their support for web standards.

With the release of jQuery 1.7 on November 3rd came two new ways to attach event handlers - .on() and .off().

Over the last few years there has been one tool that has helped out every web developer more than any other – the browser developer tools.

One of the most interesting parts of working as a web developer comes from making a decision on how to organise code depending on a particular project or problem.

I thought as a way to kick this blog off I would share this JavaScript pattern with you which I've started using recently.

If you're reading this, you've reached the first post of my blog.